I am glad we don't have the squalid living conditions of the victorian era, and am glad that several generations don't live together in overcrowded dwellings.
Both were factors causing disease and early deaths.
Wages were low then, and (by the present cost of living) are low now, which puts home ownership beyond the reach of most people. The housing shortage causes high rents - anything rare has a high price.
The system you advocate ie, no state provision, has US citizens living in tent cities.
That couldn't happen here because all land is owned by somebody so there is nowhere to pitch it ! Even cardboard boxes in shop doorways are against the planning regulations and illegal.
You seem to wallow in nostalgia about the 'age of empire type' past - the only people who enjoyed it were the landed gentry.
I recall recently, a reporter decided to live like a homeless person so he could report it. He lasted a few days and died of
hypothermia. Do they die of that in sunny Singapore?
